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An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Warrior Burial from “Vysokaya Mogila – Studenikin Mar” Necropolis: New Finds of Defensive Armor of the Southern Urals Early Nomads

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник
The article publishes a warrior burial from the Southern Urals. In the kurgan with specific features of the South Ural nomads’ elite burial rite, a central dromos with an individual burial of a nomadic military nobility representative was studied. In the
Sergey V. Sirotin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

[Review of] Joseph Hobbs. Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
It is not often that a person can pick up a book and read it with clarity and understanding, especially ethnographic materials that attempt to describe peoples of various cultural orientations.
Stephens, Torrance
core   +1 more source

Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Succession of Sarmatian Population in the East-European Steppes

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
As V.P. Alekseev wrote, the succession of population has been peculiar for individual territories for centuries. Despite the fact that the Eastern European steppe in ancient times and the Middle Ages was characterized by frequent changes of the ...
Balabanova Mariya A.
doaj   +1 more source

Nomadic pastoralism in the Early Bronze Age of the central Balkans evaluation of background knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The aim of the paper is to examine background knowledge about the orga­nizational properties of mobile pastoral groups in order to assess the likelihood of the existence of pastoral nomads in the Early Bronze Age in the central Balkans. The patterning
Porčić Marko
core   +2 more sources

A comprehensive approach to addressing drought and desertification in Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the 1970s, the United Nations identified desertification as a global threat to environmental sustainability. While the concept of dryland degradation has long and always existed, desertification on the other hand implies the rapid spread of the ...
Medugu, Idris Nasiru
core  

Coworking spaces and workplaces of the future: Critical perspectives on community, context and change

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The last decade has witnessed increased demand by employers and workers for greater flexibility, especially regarding remote and hybrid work. There has therefore been a substantial increase in academic interest in coworking, including within business and management studies. We conduct a systematic literature review of research on coworking and
Jennifer Johns   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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